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Lap 8 and the Curve Grande incident.
Although the results of this contact were somewhat spectacular and involved several cars as the aftermath unfolded I am reluctant to apply any penalties.
4 cars are approaching Curve Grande and D Curtis has used the speed of his Matra to carry him to the front of the group. Ronnie is to his outside and prevents Dave from moving wide onto the racing line. Dean has been opportunist and tucked in behind the Matra to benefit from the slipstream and is closing on Dave into CG. There is a 4th car that is keeping a safe distance but he is not involved until later.
I think perhaps it is a little unfair to place all the blame on Dave's shoulders because he slowed suddenly for CG. I am mindful of the fact that he was jousting with 2 very experienced drivers who would have expected him to carry far more speed into the corner and still hold the inside line. However Dave admits that he was aware of Ronnie alongside him and did not want to risk sliding wide and collecting him, so he downshifts and brakes. This sudden and unexpected decrease in speed catches Dean completely cold and he hits the rear of Dave's Matra.
The result is that all 4 cars are involved in the incident, one of which loses a wheel and is left parked on the racing line. As he attempts to get himself out of the way 2 more cars make contact and further mayhem ensues.
If Dave felt that he could not have held a tight line and carry his speed through CG, he is not at fault. One could say that he should not have put himself in a position where he was forced to reduce speed so dramatically, but it was not a malicious act. Although our rules stae that it is the following car that must be sure to avoid any contact, it would be harsh to place the blame on Dean.
Although as an innocent victim in all of this I would have liked to give everyone a 5 place penalty, I have to call this a Racing Incident.

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Walter Conn has been honest enough to confess to using 2 x S/R and has been sent to the naughty step. Oh! and he has also been DQ'd

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After last season's almost blemish free behaviour, it looks like the incident fairy finally found us!

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Lap 5 on the entry to Parabolica Fran attempts to pass Dean around the outside. dean has taken a defensive inside line and hugs the kerb. Dean touches the kerb and is deflected slightly . Meanwhile Fran has drawn alongside Dean but is very close and the 2 cars touch sending Fran out into the gravel trap.
Fran was quite entitled to attempt the pass, however he should have kept his car on the outer 50% of the track width and left Dean with the inside 50%. If he had kept to his own side of the tarmac there would have been no contact as Dean's deflection off the kerb was minimal and quickly corrected.
as Fran was the one who suffered most I am calling this a Racing Incoident but with an advisory note to Fran to keep to his half of the track when passing other cars

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Lap 10 and Fran has drafted Ronnie on the run to Lesmo 1 and puts his car down the inside. Ronnie moves across to take the racing line and makes contact with Fran who is fully alongside.
It looks like Ronnie lost sight of Fran, and did not expect him to be there.
Ronnie does leave some room but not enough and is punted into the armco by Fran who is clearly alongside and on his own side of the track. Once again I think the person who made the error suffered most, so I am calling a Racing Incident with a cautionary note about watching where other cars are.

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Lap 4 and Fran and mark are side by side going towards Curve Grande. From the server replay it looks like Mark does twitch the steering wheel just before the contact and his car moves slightly to the right.
Unfortunately Fran is right alongside and contact is made at just about the fastest point on the track. Mark is spun out and Fran continues.
From the server evidence it looks like the "twitch" by Mark is to blame, but maybe Fran would have been wiser to leave a just little more room between the cars.

Moderator's Report

Although there are no reported incidents, this race was not without its share of contacts and exchanging of paint and rubber samples. I counted 10 cars involved at Curve Grande lap 1 and a further 3 or 4 at Parabolica on the same Lap!! Just a little more care and leave a few metres more room and these things would not happen so often.

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Nicky's rear ending of Axel on the entry to Curve Grande falls in the red zone and initiated a crash fest involving 10 cars. This was a small error of judgement which prompted a huge incident.

As this is in the red zone I have to apply a penalty for blatant rear end collision.

There were other incidents throughout lap 1, but all fell outside the end of the red zone (2nd Lesmo) and all involved a massive amount of warp and extended collision box action. Some cars were metres apart and still became involved in the action.
This should serve as a reminder to give each other more room, especially on the first lap where gaps between cars are small and the margin for error is even smaller.

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There were no other reported incidents, but I did witness more than one car untangling himself from another's wheels.

A New Year and a whole new Friday Trophy series with another 40 races starting with races as Monza which everyone knows.

Once again this is aimed to be a FUN series with everyone enjoying some good racing in all of the 4 car sets.

Based upon the performances last season there will be a few tweaks to the cars available to the Light drivers for each round with the intention of bringing the Heavies more into contention. I will be monitoring the results and as the season progresses the cars available to the Lights may be adjusted for different circuits. Race posts should appear at least 7 days before each round so that drivers have a chance to experiment with the cars that are available to them.

The format will be the same as last year with 2 races on each Friday, starting with the F2's and 69x's followed by the Gt's and Can Ams the following week at the same track.

I hope that some of the very fastest drivers ( you know who you are !) will select a car that challenges them rather than go for the fastest chassis available. But human nature being what it is, I suspect there will be a lot of very similar cars on the grid lol!

I was warned by Raoni that there is a driver doing weird things in IGOR

I was witness to this. GPL Brasil ran the final round of their Oval Cup last weekend. I was following another driver out of turn 4 at Indy and we barely missed a McLaren doing at least 100 mph in the wrong direction! I sent Raoni my email address so he could verify it was me if I race with them in the future.

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You know that some people are differentNow ain't that a crying shameNow wouldn't it be a real drag if we were all the same

:'( signed in for fryday throphy 2 days ago. Opend side today to check which pw is on; but got message `your not allowed to enter this series`, so I remove my vote and did sign in again. Unfortunately without any success...help plz.